NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Paso Robles, CA, United States, 02/18/2010 - Californians to find more alternative fuel choices at the pump.

Thanks to the Clean Cities Recovery Act Awards for Alternative and Advanced Vehicles, California drivers can look forward to more alternative fuel options at the pump over the next two years. As partial recipients of an over twelve million dollar grant, CleanFuelUSA and local propane marketer Delta Liquid Energy will install twenty-five new public propane refueling sites in the Los Angeles Basin and Northern California.

The grant, called the Texas State Technical College’s Development of a National Liquid Propane (Autogas) Refueling Network, Clean School Bus/Vehicle Incentive & Green Jobs Outreach Program, will result in the development of approximately one hundred and eighty four liquid propane “Autogas” refueling stations in major metropolitan areas across the country, and aims to displace more than three million gallons of petroleum annually.

Delta Liquid Energy (DLE) Alternative Fuel Manager Ted Olsen explains that DLE and CleanFuelUSA worked for about a year to get the grant. They have already started construction on the first leg of what they estimate will be a two-year project to install the twenty-five refueling sites, which will add to DLE’s fourteen other public propane refueling sites.

“With these public sites, we are making it easier and convenient for the general public and other fleet drivers to get propane motor fuel,” Olsen says, adding that DLE also plans to enhance their existing refueling sites. “This is a great step in the right direction of becoming less dependent on gasoline; with the infrastructure in place—as it is in Europe, where ‘Autogas’ and gasoline are offered side-by-side at most stations—it will be more practical for American drivers to choose an alternative fueled automobile.”

And as new Roush Ford Propane Vehicles and new CleanFuelUSA vehicles hit the road this year, Olsen says public propane sites are going to be in increasingly high demand.

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